After reviewing China's involvement in energy, trade and climate change governance and its needs in this respect, this paper explores China's possible interest in a 'Sustainable Energy Trade Agreement' (SETA) approach as a way to address those needs. Subsequently, it identifies international and...

The resilience of global value chains has been put to the test by the COVID-19 pandemic, extreme weather events, and trade tensions spurred by growing economic nationalism and protectionism. Shocks in production and trade can be transmitted from one country to another by global value chains,...